Dear Editor, I AGREE with the writers who congratulate RK. It is a significant website on politics and people in the Great Region. It might be one of the most visited websites in the world and particularly in the Great Lakes Region. I was in the Far East, few days ago, scholars there use this website to get deeper insights into the regions. Governments too, read this. The US State Department, I am informed, is one of the regular visitors to this website. We cannot send you money otherwise the dictators will use it to trap you. We only say, well done.

The debate on Rwanda and Kagame, at this level needs some technical insights to guide the readers and writers. Some writer directed our attention to thinking about whether what happened in Rwanda was genocide, civil unrest, etc. This is a vital question although, I am almost sure, Kigali regime would not like to hear this question. In my opinion, basing on the legal definition of genocide and what happened in Rwanda and Congo, between 1990 and 1998, the killings amount to genocide. But then who committed genocide against who in Rwanda? I think, on both sides, there were organized groups (militia and army) which aimed at finishing off the "other ethnic group".

The history of ethnic militia in Rwanda and Burundi is as old as the ethnic conflicts in those countries. Each group has always survived under protection of its own militia and so what those militia groups do for the protection of "their group" is necessarily good and should be applauded by an ordinary member of the ethnic group. This explains the current existence of Hutu militia in Congo and Burundi just waiting for their time to terrorize the Tutsi in case of a regime change. In the meantime, Kigali regime is also training its Tutis militia "intore" group of youth at every level of administration which is meant to help the regime "promote development". Wait and see, the future will judge our writings. Inotre in Rwanda is a group of militia being trained by Kagame regime.

Has RPF/A ever been devoid of ethnic hatred? Interestingly, RPF/A will argue that it has always had mixed officers; Hutus and Tutsi in it ranks. They will mention how it started with Bizimungu, Kanyarengwe, Twagiramungu, etc. But ask Kagame where all these are? All these men's end was clear to the world that the Tutsi used them for a while. They were "marketing agents" for Kagme's Tutsi regime. The current Prime Minister of Rwanda, speaker of parliament, President of the Supreme Court and the Hutu marginalized ministers, are not different either.

According to an insider, who has also offered to be a wittiness in Kagame case at the ICC (it looks like the French and Spanish arrest warrants and summons may be moving the ICC to take up the case very soon), up to Monday 1st October, when RPA attacked, nobody knew the secrete agenda of the "Commander" Fred Rwegyema. Kumbe, much as he looked innocent, "the commander" had deep seated ethnic sentiments.

Unfortunately, late in the evening of the same day, he shared this ethnic sentiment to Major Peter Bahingana who was a very close friend of Christopher Bunyenyezi. Bahingana felt betrayed and so he shared this secrete with Bunyenyezi. This did not go down well with Bunyenyezi who, himself had Hutu blood relations. That the commander even said "of all things I thank God for, I thank Him for not having created me Hutu".

This was a clear indication that the likes of Bunyenyezi who had Hutu relations would suffer under Rwegyema. This is why Fred Rwegyema was killed by Christopher Bunyenyezi and Peter Bayingana. On the other had, Afande Adam Waswa, Samuel Kanyemera (now Kaka), Stephen Ndugute and Kagame (although Kagame was not around then, he was in USA), shared Fred Rwgyema's hatred for the Hutu. And so, they embarked on hunting down everybody that was linked to Fred Rwegyema(s death. This was a successful move thanks to Yoweri Museveni ( who was then a president in Uganda) and Kagame who executed the the likes of Afande Bunyenyezi.

It is the successful killing of anybody who would be linked to Fred's death and having weakened RPA to that extent that Kagame came top in RPA. There are very many experienced people who would have taken over RPA after Rwegyema's death but Afande Kagame had terrorized everybody!!

This is why he has ever since recorded disagreement with some of his senior officers who think he hijacked the post simply because of killing others. Anyway, after RPA had been weakend to that extent, Kagame went for Laurent Nkunda's Banyamulenge fighters - that was around the 23rd October. They were positioned in Byumba. These Banyamurenge fighters (Tutsi) of Nkunda really killed the Hutu. You know for the Banyanmulenge, it is like they are natural enemies of the Hutu. Whenever they have a chance to kill the other, they really do it "thoroughly". This is what happened to the Hutu in Byumaba.

The Habyariman regime also "adopted" the absurd military tactic of killing; they also killed the Tutis in their territory as RP/A, and Nkunda's forces were killing the Tutsi under RPA territory.

What about the 1994 "genocide"? The World first opened its eyes to the killings in Rwanda when dead bodies were floating on Lake Victoria!! It is on record that the tributaries that supply River Nyaborongo which pours into Lake Victoria into which dead bodies first floated were those in the then RPA controlled territory and actually these killings by RPA had a name "agafuni".

On the other side, Habyarimana was also killing the Tutsi. Remember, when Kagame and Museveni planned to kill Habyarimana which they successfully did thanks to the assistance they got from ( some three Western Countries - let us not cause a diplomatic crisis for now), whereas for the Western Countries the scheme had been to bring an end to the war so that they focus on Congo as soon as possible, Kagame and Museveni's major calculation was to create a power vacuum which they would use to finish off the Hutu and lay a foundation for the "Tutsification" of the region.

Immediately after RPA take over of power - what is often called "stopping genocide" - Yeah, the Kagame regime calls it "stopping genocide" because indeed, the Tutsi genocide almost ended then. But the reality is that the genocide targeting the Hutu only gained momentum. Again, Museveni and Kagame went into full swing to exterminate the Hutu; not only in Rwanda but also in the refugee camps in Zaire where the Hutu had taken refugee. The Hutu militia did not stop also, every single opportunity they could get, they would kill a handful of Tutsi.

Then there came the "Laurent Nkunda" war in Congo. It was pure genocide directed against the helpless Hutu. This is why we now have a strong Hutu armed group in Congo. They would not surrender to Kagame sponsored killing under pretext of "Nkunda and his militia".

We also have to be careful, when Kagame came into power, he manipulated the world to believe that Gacaca (court of community justice) was meant to bring about justice. Not at all!!! Gacaca was meant to hunt down Hutu opinion leaders. Most of them are now in prisons serving sentences of over 20 years. What Kagame told the world was that Gacaca was meant to reduce on the number of prisoners after the genocide who had not received any hearing!! But in practice, Gacaca courts have thrown more people into jails!

In addition, if ever there was a justice system where there is no fair hearing, it is Gacaca. Gacaca courts, like the ICTR (The International Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha) did not try any incident of killings directed towards the Hutus by the Tutsi. Why hasn't the world pushed the ICTR to prosecute RPA/F (Tutsi) perpetrators of genocide against the Hutu? The answer is simple. If the RPF/A is exposed to these trials, the three Western countries I mentioned above which sponsored Kagame's war will also be exposed. Remember that whenever the issue of trying RPA men who committed genocide arises, Museven automatically supports Kagame. The reason is very simple; M7 was the master planner of the Tutsi genocide against the Hutu in Rwanda. The two guys might, at one time, stand in the same dock at ICC.

I am sure these facts will be disputed by Kagame regime but just wait, one day, somewhere; if not Kagame, then some of his associates will be tried. Did Charles Taylor ever think he would be in a dock somewhere?

The good thing is that Kagame is young; he might live to see those days. The Hutu militia too, who inflicted such suffering against innocent Tutsi, like it or not, will be tried somewhere. I would rather the two sides were tried by the same court within the same period of time.

BUT Kagame still has a chance; his sentence might be mitigated by what he will have chosen to re-make of Rwandans. Is he willing to change?

RK send this message to the world. We want new Rwandans IN THEIR COUNTRY

Nzarora, Nigeri